Scaling Management without Sacrificing Culture - Velocity NY 2015

How can your organization scale management without sacrificing the culture you have worked hard to build? Grow your own managers! This talk will focus on the steps Etsy has taken to overcome the pitfalls that lie in the path of transitioning from individual contributor to manager and how to encourage those who want to become managers for the right reasons.

This has been updated with new content since the talk given at Velocity Europe 2014.

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Michael
Rembetsy
@mrembetsy
Patrick
McDonnell
@mcdonnps
Studio sessions
• Cohorts of 6-8 that are cross-functional and of the same level
• Expert-facilitated sessions where cohorts are given an
opportunity to reflect on the learnings of the MTP
• Safe space for participants to “get real” about the management
challenges they face across teams, a chance to share best
practices, and an opportunity to build camaraderie
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Michael
Rembetsy
@mrembetsy
Patrick
McDonnell
@mcdonnps
Expanded efforts
• Dens supported both by external professional and trained
internal facilitators
• Dens becoming decentralized out to remote offices and work
being done to measure their impact
• Teaming up with company which specializes in providing online
professional development content to managers at tech
companies to continuously improve managerial skills
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Michael
Rembetsy
@mrembetsy
Patrick
McDonnell
@mcdonnps
1. What is important about the feedback
system in your organization? What purpose(s)
does it serve and what does it provide?
2. In constructing an ideal feedback system,
what from your current system would you
keep and why? What would you toss or tweak
and why?
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